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Sphalerite from
Frazer's Hush Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite38 photos of Sphalerite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Quartz30 photos of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Siderite10 photos of Sphalerite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Galena8 photos of Sphalerite associated with Galena at this locality.
Calcite7 photos of Sphalerite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Dolomite4 photos of Sphalerite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Pyrite4 photos of Sphalerite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Frazer's Hush Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:17725
Long-form Identifier:1:3:17725:0
GUID (UUID V4):c14d2f76-1a82-4e30-abea-c76e3e7d8ab4
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Groverake Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) North Groverake Quarry, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
3.1km (2.0 miles) Allenheads Mine (Beaumont Mine), Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
4.0km (2.5 miles) Old Middlehope Mine, Ireshopeburn, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
4.1km (2.5 miles) Redburn Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
4.3km (2.7 miles) Burtree Pasture Mine (Breckonsyke Mine; Broadmea Mine), Cowshill, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
4.7km (2.9 miles) Burtree Slits, Cowshill, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
4.9km (3.0 miles) Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
5.4km (3.4 miles) Slitt Mine, Westgate, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
5.7km (3.6 miles) St Peter's Mine, Sparty Lea, Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche for himself...Cambokeels Mine, Eastgate, Weardale. Lot 222 – Fluorite, chalcopyrite and siderite – Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope...Rookhope, Co. Durham. Collected in 1897. 5 Lot No. Approximate specimen dimensions Description Southwest...Southwest England 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon...green stock label. SW.17 Paratacamite - Botallack Mine, St.Just, Cornwall. [SW 365 330]. From Hazard Section
Report (chapter)
abandonment of Frazer's Grove carbonate hosted Pb/Zn fluorspar mine, north Pennines, UK K. L. Johnson...abandonment of Frazer's Grove carbonate hosted Pb/Zn fluorspar mine, north Pennines, UK K. L. J O H N...University of Newcastle, NEI 7RU UK (e-mail: k.l.johnson @ncl.ac. uk) Abstract: The problems associated...associated with predicting where mine water will emerge and what the quality will be in a post-closure situation...world-wide. The closure of Frazer's Grove, a fluorspar mine in the North Pennines in the UK has given the opportunity
Book
publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages 41, 46, 54, 59(x2)...Earth Sciences,University of Durham: page_26 C H. Emeleus,University of Durham: page 26 Friends of Killhope...Valley ................... The Northumberland and Durham Coalfield ............. The Northern Pennine Orefield................... 201 72 Foreword ORTHERN England, an area of great natural beauty, is additionally...Pennines, Cumbria, various regions of north-east England, and North Yorkshire. Such a diverse expanse naturally
Journal (issue)
UK TS C 2 COVER:Superbtwinnedyellowfluoritecrystal 15 mm on edge from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria...T'wENTY YEARS IN MINERALS NORTHERN ENGLAND David Green • Peter Briscoe The UK ]011rnalof Mines at1d Minerals...Ratcliff & Roper (Print ) Ltd Worksop, Nous. S80 2EE UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 22 -t- Campylite...classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of the Fred Bull collection...collection, is°'currently owned by David McCallmn. UK Journal of Mines & Mfo~r:il, No. 22 -2- T·w·E.NTY
Journal (issue)
.............................. Groverake & Frazer's Hush Mines Brian Young 28 .........................is that David, while at University, represented England in the sport of 'winks', which apparently was taken...impurities. Thus elsewhere in this Newsletter Groverake Mine is described as a commercial producer of fluorspar...au South Caradon 5551 The site of South Caradon mine at St. Cleer Cornwall, has been declared by English...moss. The accessible underground workings of the mine are leased by the Caradon Mines Research Group,
Book (edition)
Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by Sir Arthur Russell and now in the...sheets 19 and 25, and parts of 13, 24, 26, 31, 32 (England and Wales) LONDON: HMSO 1990 . I\. © C,rown...sheets 19 and 25 and parts of 13, 24, 26, 31, 32 (England and Wales). Author Sir Kingsle_y Dunham, DSc, SD...FRS, FEng, FIMM Charleycroft, QuarryheadsLane) Durham DHJ 3D Y Other publications of the Survey dealing
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National Grid Reference...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
Book (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALF�S GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PENNINE OREFIELD...inserted on the six-inch maps, and all available mine-sections were reduced to the common scale of 200...made by him. The willing co-operation of all the mine-owners and operators and their staffs made possible... B. Laporte & Co., the Owners of Settlingstones Mine Ltd., Holmside ·& South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd.,...Plan of the North Central flats, Rotherhope Fell Mine 82 11. Cross-section of Burtrec Pasture Vein
Journal (issue)
permission of the author. -3- FLUORITE Wet Grooves Mine Yorkshire . I was recently given the opportunity...specimen she had collected from the Wet Grooves Mine dumps. The Mines, situated in Yorkshire, were originally...and a profusion of inclusions of Pyrite (?) and Sphalerite. However, the features that interested me most...Merritt for information relating to the Wet Grooves Mine. Brian Prowse -4- ;; ~ SUSSEX MINERAL SHOW...will receive a superb specimen of Sphalerite from the Small Cleugh mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. -6- ....
Report (volume)
Mine Water Hydrogeology and Geochemistry Geological Society Special Publications Society Book Editors... GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATION No. 198 Mine Water Hydrogeology and Geochemistry EDITED BY P...University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and N.S. ROBINS British Geological Survey, UK 2002 Published by The Geological...is Registered Charity 210161. The Society is the UK national learned and professional society for geology...fifth of the Society's fellowship resides outside the UK. To find out more about the Society, log on to www
Journal (issue)
the agreed £600 sponsorship had been paid to the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, a new Catalogue of...hematite, calcite, and quarts from the famous Florence Mine, Cumbria. These were contributed by Roy Starkey...Town Quarry near Middridge, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham. The fluorite forms square plates, some at right...with offretite. Roy Starkey provided a brilliant sphalerite (1040) from the Callow Hill quarry in Shropshire...but X-rayed); linarite prisms from the Britannia Mine (1051), associated with lanthanite; parnauite (1052/54)
Book
SMLS Chair 2022 Botallackite (Xtals 3mm) Bunmahon Mine, Copper Coast, Eire. Photo:John Hall CONTENTS...increasingly ambitious. Collecting started in Southern England, Cornwall and Wales, and gradually extended to...to descend the hydraulic shaft in the Smallcleugh Mine and we bought an inflatable dinghy so we could land...other local mineral clubs as well as the national UK mineral societies: the British Micromount Society...addition, members would visit many Mineral Shows in the UK, particularly the Oxford, Bakewell and Haywards Heath
Journal (issue)
Linhay, Woodcockshayes, Halberton Willand, Devon, England. EX15 2QF Telephone / Fax 01884 821563 Only Road...Something New • Please Send Us Your Wants List UK journal of & mtnes minerals CONTENTS number...TISPIECE HARM0TOi\lE Stro11tia11, Scot/011d The UK Jo11ma/ of 1Ui11es and Mi11era/s publishes articles...Ba is dominant, a difference from earlier schemes. UK Journal of Mines & !\linerals No. 19 -3- Newly...more detailed discussion of zeolite nomenclature. UK Journal of t.lincs & fllincral~ No. 19 -4- MINERAL
Report (issue)
Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56...Special Collections Library at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The ancients were interested...attention of miners, carvers, and decorators: in England, dark (almost blue-black), violet, and yellow fluorite...Castleton in Traek Cliff (Derbyshire), the Blue John mine (page 35). The term "fluorite" was coined in 1797
Journal (issue)
'I'd 1(0909) 476906 5 4 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 12 —1 — E DITO...Treolar and the High Raise vein, in the Nentsberry mine at Alston, Cumbria in January 1931, will depend...own collections." It is not a joke. lick Cooper UK Journal of иines & Minerals No. 12 —2— Buder. I5ß...Molybdenite occurs in a number of localities throughout the UK, but the outstanding reference is that of Heddle...fibrous massesсо Ь т т , associated with epidote. UK journal of Mines & Minerals No. 12 —5— ANDRADITE
Journal (issue)
...................................... the first uk rigs conference a ustin lockwood 3 5 ..............Dunlap's talk on the 'Minerals of the North of England', held on Sunday, 6 December 1998 showed a marked...Reservoir and walked the 4 mile track to Greenhurth Mine [NY780328]. Some years ago I found a small amount...ullmannite to the host minerals and rocks. Mouldri dge Mine, Pikehall, Derbyshire, [Grid Ref. SK194596] 27 Sept...mornin g in t his small but quite com plex old lead mine. A little blue/green mineral was seen in situ in
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NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ. King, Tewkesbury, u...4TG Printed by Northern Litho Services, Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...stream sediment survey of the area around Carrock Mine (Appleton and Wadge, 1976) shows three, roughly...resembles the quartz in the tungsten veins at Carrock mine, being very coarse and greasy with few cavities...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme. Report
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto ...with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being a case in point. Many of these specimens..."Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists, as it was merged with Westmorland...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during
Report (issue)
0308-2199j BRITISH MINING No.5 MEMOIRS of NORTHERN MINE the RESEARCH 1977 SOCIETY NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS...exploration and geological research with reference to mine workings of the British Isles are welcome for inclusion...addressed to: R.H. Bird Esq. The Editor, Northern Mine Research Society, 41 Windsor Walk, South Anston...Guthrie Esq . Publication After Sales, Northern Mine Research Society, 186 Station Road, Billingham TS23...otherwise, without prior permission of the Northern Mine Research Society. Further, any opinions or statements
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t;>.,,.,. J..2. w ,·tf, SI' l'UK TS C 2 EDITORIAL COVER:Heart-shaped calcite twin...Rob Lavinsky. CLASSIC MINERALS OF NOlffl-lERN ENGLAND STEVErtUSTITE 6 RICHARD BARSTOW Roy Starkey...COmwaJI, England UKJournal of Mines & Minerals No. 31 -1,\ EDITORIAL his edition of the Uk]lv!M begins...CLASSICMINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND he mineral deposits of northern England are internationally recognised...of local knowledge, by the well known north-of-England collector Lindsay Greenbank. T The celebration
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UK TS C 2 COVER. Emerald-green torbemite crystals to 9 mm across, from South Wheal Basset, lllogan...Caerhays Miniature Collection No. 945. EDITORIAL The UK Journal of Mines a11d Minerals publishes articles...advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIE1Y...RASPITE, STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS...Press, Dorchester, Dorset, DT11HD ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Mincr.ils No. 34 -1- EDITORIAL
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Society is :i society of :un:u cur and profc:••ioll:ll mine r:tlogist• which encourages the s tudy, recording... -~ :.u ~•!l•~~!..=1 1-tc-.=, l :,.r., ; '::,: UK .and l tthod miner~ p.•xno;:n.p.,S.. TI:::- Jli;...Force Polish Air Force Remnants. John arrived in England at RAF Manston around April 1940, where he joined...SGS put on a big display including data on the Rookhope borehole and some fabulous 3D graphics showing...granite to the current surface. Brian Young and Durham University brought along a number of specimens
Journal (issue)
on the occurrence of erythrite at East Blackcraig Mine, Newton Stewart, ............................ ....of the best apatites (amongst other things) in the UK. He also collected superb specimens on the Lizard...also spent some years working at the South Crofty mine as a surveyor and then as a geological Nick was...to members about such thing; as events, meeting;, mine closures, access issues, collections for sale, other...George Ryback, Journal Editor Insurance The first UK RIGS Conference The Society has renewed its Public
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology Northern England FIFTH EDITION P Stone D lv\illw ard B Young J...DJ D. 2010. British Regional Geology: Northern England (Fifth edition) (Key,vorth, Nottingham: British...for northern England Index 277 275 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures l Topography of north ern England 2 2 Outline...Outline geology of northern England 3 3 Palaeogeographical reconstructions from the Ordovician to the Palaeogene...radiometric dates for the igneous rocks of northern England l 0 5 Cross-section of th e lapetus Suture Zone
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UK JOURNAL M I N OF E S -----&----- M ·1 N E R A L S ISSUE N0.9 • SPRING - SUMMER 1991...EDITORIAL COVER PHOTO: Bayldonite. Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Globular aggregates to 0...collection. Photo: Mick Cooper. 3 CALCITE 4 The UK Joumol of Mi11es011dMinerals publishes articles of-interest...Simon Camm· Michael Merry ------- 16 ------THE VAN MINE S.J.S. Hughes -------26 ------A JOURNEY THROUGH... EDITORIAL LOOKING BACK In the course of its evolution the UK Joumol of Mints and Minerals has seen many small
 
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